The Free Lance.
VOL. 2
THE FREE LANCE.
Published monthly during the college year by the Students
of The Pennsylvania State College.
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EDITOR,
CURTIN G. ROOP, 'S9.
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Entered a Slate College Post Offee as second-class nuatei
FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR BOYS
who may have not seen the mention accord
ed us by the Mirror of Bucknell University, we
clip the following: "If the corresponding sec
retary of the State College foot-ball team looks
over his correspondence he will find a chal
lenge from BuCknell which' has not been ac
cepted. These rash youths from the wilds of
Centre county followed out the old saying,
that fools rush in where angels fear to tread'
by attempting to play base-ball with us last
June. Of course, defeat was their experience.
This fall they endeavored to get even with
Bucknell by •the aid of their foot-ball team.
We were- giving . their the- same close as . last
June, and: at the• moment when . Our , fellOW's
were going to make a touch clown, Cleaver,
STATE COLLEGE, PA., DECEMBER, 1888
their referee, gave a rank decision. Our boys
objected to the injustice, and State College
only too glad to find a chance. to escape said,
that they would quit playing. They were per
fectly willing to sneak off' without demand
ing any money for expenses." Also, " where
are the loud-mouthed State College kickers?
We have not heard anything of them lately."
What the mission of the Mirror is, or what the
code of Bucknell students as gentlemen (?) is
we do not know. We quote the above to
justify in the eyes of our readers the taking of
space in our paper for the statement of facts
which we are compelled to seriously say have
left us with little respect for the word, Honor,
or ordinary civility of Bucknell students, or at
least that portion of the students who speak
and act as representatives of "Bucknell ath
letics." All of the correspondence above re
ferred to has been handed us. Under date of Octo
ber 15, R. M. West, Bucknell's mouth-piece,
wrote, "I should like very much to arrange for
a game. • . . I will guarantee you $20,00
and locals; return game the same conditions;"
(we italicise the word return because the cor
respondent underscored it.) On the strength
of this offer we sent our eleven to Bucknell.
After playing about twenty minutes Bucknell
disputed a decision of State College's referee.
The dispute was upon our referee's interpreta
tation of the rides on a certain point. When
he asked Bucknell, whom we were visiting, to
produce a copy of the rules, (our team had ne
glected to carry a copy along) for reference,
they said, "We don't have any." We mention
this incidentally, as significantly indicating the
character of "Bucknell athleticS;" if they have
a definite tharacter, and also inclicatino• the
range of a Bucknell'" kidker."' When no copy
of the rules could be produced our referee
No. 6.